Dress Rehearsal

I am out of town this week with work and Emory has her little Halloween party at daycare this Friday, so I figured I needed to make sure her ballerina outfit still fit this weekend before I left. She loves being a ballerina and twirled and twirled around. She then decided to put on her high heels, play her drum, and put on a little show. She loves to wear her high heels too and walks really well in them.

Twirling around!

This is her ballerina pose.

Putting on a show for me! She loves to entertain.

The Pumpkin Patch

Sunday afternoon Bradley and I took Emory to the pumpkin patch. It was a bit harder this year getting half-way decent pictures, because Emory was more interested in rolling, sliding down, and sitting on the pumpkin's rather than getting her picture taken with them. Not to mention all the excitement with watching the other kids at the patch. Emory also had fun playing with the hay, or as she called it horsee eat. She had a great time though and picked out a little Emory size pumpkin to take home.

21 Months

Emory Grace, you turned 21 months old last Friday. Developmentally, y0u have grown by leaps and bounds over the last month. You are a little sponge when it comes to learning words and seem to pick up a new word daily. You have learned to count to 10, although you prefer to start with the number 3 for some reason. I think it is your favorite number! You also said your first official "big girl" sentence, which was "Daddy cereal bar all gone." You are learning to sing the ABC song, although you currently just know abcd and then la la la the rest of the song.

You really like choo choo trains right now and think it is funny to say "All Aboard."

You also are very independent and insist on dressing yourself most of the time. You have also learned how to put on your shoes. Here you are clapping for yourself after putting on your pj's!

You love to read books, dress up, and play with your toys.

You are so funny and are constantly making Daddy and Mommy laugh. You are also very polite and usually say please and thank you. This weekend you started saying your welcome, but you say "Thank You Your Welcome" all at once, which sounds more like tankyouurwelcum. Too cute! You have also grown some over the last month and you are now wearing 18 month clothes.

We love you Emory!

Trip to the Zoo

This past weekend my parents were down for a visit and Saturday my mom and I took Emory to the Lufkin Zoo. It is not a large zoo but it is nice and has many animals plus the Z & OO railroad which Emory loved. She really liked the animals especially the many peacocks which wander freely around the zoo. She had a great time and we will have to go back soon.

Tuocan Sam

The giraffes. There were several giraffes at the zoo including a few babies, but they were in the shadows and I could not get a good picture.

Emory liked the lions. I only got a picture of the "mommy" lion because the "daddy" lion would not look at us.

Emory was very excited to see that the lions and tigers played with balls too. In each of their pens there was this huge ball that I guess they roll around. She is still talking about the lion and tiger balls.

I tried to get her picture with this lion statue, but she was not having it. She was not sure what this was, she touched it but then bolted. This is as close as she would go after that.

There was about 15 turtles sunning on these rocks.

There were all kinds of different birds roaming freely around the zoo.

This mommy peacock and her three babies followed us around for a while. Emory really liked the peacocks.

She was also impressed with the big "lizard."

It opened it's eyes after a while and Emory thought that was funny.

After the Zoo we rode the Z & OO railroad (twice), which is a little train that takes you around the park. She would not look at me just the train, so this is the best picture I got.

Here she is getting ready to take off. She loved riding the choo choo train and is still talking about it.

Mommy & Daughter Day

Saturday after an unsuccessful morning of shopping for fall/winter clothes for Emory, we loaded up and headed to the park. We had beautiful weather this weekend and Emory had a blast at the park. She swung, ran, batted her eyes at a little boy, and tried to climb all of the jungle gyms that she is too little for. Needless to say she had a blast. I think the slide and swings were her favorite though. After a while Emory exclaimed that she was hungry, so I decided to treat her to McDonald's. I made the mistake of sitting next to the big window that looks out into the play area. Emory is already a slow eater in general but she was mega slow due to her watching all the commotion outside. I think we were there for close to a hour. After lunch we headed home and Emory was fast asleep before we got home.

She was telling me WEEE!

Just swinging!

and swinging!

She thought the tunnels were funny! That is the older boy she was flirting with behind her.

What a Mess!

Emory is at such a fun age right now. She gets excited over the smallest things and shrills with delight. Saturday after a long day of running errands, Emory and I ended our shopping day at Wal-Mart. Well a certain Dora balloon caught her eye and since she had been a good girl all day, I decided to get it for her. You would have thought this was the first balloon she had ever laid eyes on the way she carried on. I got a little embarrassed as people were coming out of the aisles to see what all the fuss was about. Nothing but my super excited child saying Dora balloon at the top of her lungs and giggling.

She was rearing and ready to go run errands Saturday. She had HER purse and everything.

Only problem was Mommy was not ready to go, which made Emory sad.

Poor thing, could not understand why we could not go bye bye right then and there. She stood at the door the whole time I got dressed, saying bye bye Mommy over and over. Thank goodness she can't reach the dead bolt yet, or she would have been out the door and half way down the driveway.

This is her new "cheese" face! This is what I get anytime I ask her to say cheese.

She is also becoming very independent wanting to do things all by HERSELF!

Like put her bow aka headband in her hair all by herself. She does this pretty well most of the time. She also likes to put on her own shoes, however does NOT like it when she puts them on the wrong feet and they feel funny.

She also loves to play hide, and anytime Bradley or I come in from outside we have to find Emory who is usually hiding somewhere. Here she is hiding from her daddy.

Bradley had just found her in this picture. I think Emory could play hide all day long if we would let her.

Just hanging out with mommy on the couch being silly.

She was showing me her bow (headband) in this one. She was telling me, "bow mommy."

This picture cracks me up!

EMORY'S BIG NEWS

Emory is going to be a BIG SISTER this March! I will be 13 weeks this Thursday and my official due date is April 2, 2011, but since I will have to have another C-section my doctor says it will be a March baby! I have been to see the doctor twice now, the first time we got to see the baby and then last week I got to hear the heart beat, which was strong and perfect! I have been sicker this time around but feel my morning and I use that word loosely (more like all day) sickness is starting to ease

up!

This picture to me captures Emory's thoughts on the subject..... I have no idea what Mommy and Daddy are talking about!

Emory will be 26 months when the baby is born and I think she is going to be a wonderful big sister and eager to help out, maybe even too much! We are super excited and eager to find out if we are having another little girl or a boy! I don't care either way as long as it is healthy. I think most of our family is rooting for a little boy though!